Kelly Malapanes Aldrich, DNP, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN Dr. Kelly Aldrich is a Professor of Nursing and Director of Innovation at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, holding a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. With over 40 years of healthcare experience, she is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Nurses and HIMSS, and a Board-Certified Informatics Nurse Specialist. She focuses on optimizing patient care environments while lessening caregiver burden and advocates for eradicating workarounds as Never Events. Her work includes integrating prescribing technology with VR and AI educational models. She earned her MS and DNP from the University of South Florida.
	Gregory Alexander, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI Dr. Gregory Alexander has expertise in human factors, informatics, gerontology, patient safety, and quality measures. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, American College of Medical Informatics, and International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. He authored a book on IT implementation in long-term care and is completing a national study on information system maturity in nursing homes.
	Dixie Baker, PhD Dr. Dixie Baker is a Senior Partner at Martin, Blanck and Associates and founding partner of Vital eCare. Formerly CTO at SAIC, she co-led a research project enabling secure patient access to medical records online. She serves on multiple advisory boards and has been recognized as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Health IT.” She is also a Technical Fellow at HIMSS.
	Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI Suzanne Bakken is Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. She has led the development of ISO Standards for Nursing Terminologies and received the Virginia K. Saba Award and Nursing Informatics Excellence Award from Sigma Theta Tau.
	Andrew Balas, MD, PhD Dr. Balas is Full Professor at Augusta University in the College of Allied Health Sciences. His expertise is in policy development for biomedical research and applying digital technologies to transfer research to practice.
	Nancy J Beale, PhD, RN-BC Dr. Beale has over 38 years in healthcare spanning clinical care, operations, consulting, and IT. She is President of Telemetrix and Affiliates, co-chair of the Alliance of Nursing Informatics, and has served in leadership for clinical systems implementation and digital hospitals. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is board-certified in nursing informatics.
	Murielle Beene, D.N.P., M.B.A., M.P.H., M.S., R.N.-B.C., P.M.P., F.A.A.N Dr. Beene is SVP and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Trinity Health. She has over 20 years in health informatics and analytics and previously served as Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Trinity Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs. She holds multiple advanced degrees and certifications including DNP, MPH, MSN, MBA, RN-BC, PMP, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
	Carol Bickford, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAMIA, FHIMSS, FAAN Dr. Bickford is a senior policy advisor at the American Nurses Association focusing on nursing practice standards and informatics. She coordinated revisions to the 2022 Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition.
	Jaime Bland, DNP, RN Dr. Bland is President and CEO of CyncHealth, expanding its health data utility services and leading population health and clinical quality initiatives. She holds advanced degrees in informatics and a DNP in Public Health-Global Health Nursing.
	Glenorchy Campbell Glen is Chair of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM) and formerly Director at BMJ and Executive VP at Elsevier, overseeing global health sciences journals.
	Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS Whende Carroll is Clinical Informatics Advisor at HIMSS, founder of Nurse Evolution, and co-chair of the Nursing Knowledge: Big Data workgroup. She has authored publications on nursing informatics, AI, and the Unique Nurse Identifier.
	Christopher Chute, M.D., Dr.P.H., M.P.H. Dr. Chute is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics at Johns Hopkins, Chief Research Information Officer, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. He focuses on clinical information representation, semantic consistency, and health IT standards.
	Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP Dr. Delaney co-chairs ten academic-practice partnership collaboratories, co-directs the Center for Nursing Equity and Excellence (CNEE), and serves on multiple boards. She integrates informatics into healthcare workforce initiatives.
	Jane Englebright, PhD, RN, FAAN Dr. Englebright is retired Chief Nurse Executive at HCA Healthcare. She led 98,000 nurses across 184 hospitals, implemented clinical technology solutions, and currently chairs the Board of Commissioners for the Joint Commission.
	Laura Heermann Langford, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FH7 Dr. Heermann Langford is COO at Logica Health with a nursing background in emergency and pediatric ICU care. She works on clinical decision support, interoperability, HL7 standards, and FHIR clinical application implementation.
	Susan C. Hull, MSN, RN-BC, NEA-BC, FAMIA Susan Hull is a board-certified nurse executive and informaticist, currently leading health innovation at MITRE. She works on national digital health strategies, social determinants of health interoperability, and is a Fellow with AMIA.
	Rosemary Kennedy, PhD, RN, MBA, FAAN Rosemary Kennedy is Connect America’s Chief Health Informatics Officer, where she leads the development of analytics to assess the impact of health information technology on outcomes. Her career has focused on developing, implementing, and value creation of digital technology, workflows, algorithms, and population analytics. In addition, her background includes the integration of structured nursing terminologies within electronic health records, the development of electronic quality measures, and methodologies for measuring technology return on investment. Previously Rosemary led the development of body-worn sensors, including leading clinical trials and FDA submissions. Rosemary is widely presented and published in informatics and health information technology. She is also the recipient of multiple industry awards, including the Modern Healthcare “Top 25 Women in Healthcare Award,” the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) “Nursing Informatics Award.” She is a Fellow with the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and elected Chair of the Informatics Expert Panel.
	Mary Ann Lavin, DSC, RN, ANP-BC (Retired), FNI, FAAN Mary Ann Lavin is a Saint Louis University associate professor emerita. She co-coordinated the 1973 First National Conference on the Classification of Nursing Diagnoses with Kris Gebbie, which birthed NANDA, now NANDA-International. She served as a NANDA Board Member and President and attributes NANDA’s sustainability to Alinsky’s community development model. Mary Ann taught clinical/informatics sessions internationally and focuses on clinical and informatics interfaces, interoperability of nursing classification systems, multidimensional knowledge representation, generative AI-clinical nurse specialization, and identifying false dilemmas in SNL development. Her education includes a BSN, MSN, ANP certificate from Saint Louis University, and SM and SD degrees from Harvard School of Public Health.
	Karen Dunn Lopez, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN Dr. Karen Dunn Lopez is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and Director of the Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness. Her research addresses leveraging complex nursing-generated health data and poor usability of health IT. Her work links computerized decision support to improved patient outcomes and explores tailored technology formats for individual nurses. Dr. Dunn Lopez is a national informatics leader, Chair of the AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group, and serves on editorial boards and governance roles in healthcare informatics organizations.
	Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN Deborah K. Mayer is Francis Hill Fox Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UNC School of Nursing and Faculty Fellow at Villanova University. She is an advanced practice oncology nurse with 45+ years of experience in cancer care, research, and education. Dr. Mayer served as past president of the Oncology Nursing Society, was appointed to the National Cancer Advisory Board, led cancer survivorship programs at UNC, and has published extensively. She received the ONS Lifetime Achievement Award, Ellen L. Stovall Award, and ASCO’s Joseph Simone Quality Cancer Care Award.
	Kathleen McCormick, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FHIMSS Kathleen McCormick is a pioneer in Nursing Informatics, nationally and internationally. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, received multiple awards for informatics and genomics, and held senior positions at SRA, SAIC, and SciMind, LLC. She co-authored the award-winning book Essentials of Nursing Informatics and authored several HIT certification guides. She is also a retired U.S. Public Health Service Captain with over 30 years of service.
	Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FNAP, FAAN Karen Monsen is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. She led the Omaha System Partnership practice-based research network, advancing standardized nursing data use in intervention effectiveness and quality improvement. She has advised providers, universities, and students worldwide and received the Virginia K. Saba Award from AMIA in 2021.
	Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA Dr. Nahm is Professor and Associate Dean of the PhD Program. Her research focuses on digital health interventions for older adults and chronic condition management. She leads multiple NIH- and AHRQ-funded projects, has published 75+ articles, and mentors graduate and doctoral students as well as junior faculty.
	Elizabeth (Liz) Palena Hall, MIS, MBA, RN Liz Palena Hall is the LTPAC Interoperability Lead at CMS, focusing on reducing administrative burden and advancing interoperability. Previously, she led interoperability efforts at ONC and has over 25 years of experience in healthcare IT and nursing informatics.
	Friso Raemaekers Friso Raemaekers, B Health, RN, CEN, FNI, is a Nursing Policy Officer at Haaglanden Medical Centre in the Netherlands. He is a NANDA International Fellow advocating standardized nursing languages in EHRs and integrates nursing data with administrative and medical data to improve patient care.
	Chris Reddall, BA Director at Cypher Media, West Midlands, England. Chris oversees corporate communications, video production, event management, and e-media for high-end clients across financial, pharmaceutical, and global industries.
	Barbara Redman, PhD, RN, MBE, FAAN Barbara Redman is Associate, Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine and Courtesy Appointed Professor at NYU School of Nursing. She focuses on research integrity and chronic disease ethics and serves as Senior Fellow at Ge2P2Global. She has held multiple academic and fellowship appointments and holds honorary doctorates.
	Jeffrey S. Reznick, Ph., MA Dr. Reznick is Library Liaison to FNLM and leads the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine. He is an award-winning historian with a diverse, interdisciplinary, and collaborative research portfolio.
	Christopher Schaffer, MS University Librarian at UCSF, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Information Management, and Adjunct Professor. Formerly at OHSU, he has led library services, interprofessional education initiatives, and the Ontology Development Group. He is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.
	Roy Simpson, DNP, RN, DPNAP, FAAN, FACMI Roy Simpson is a Professor and nursing informatics expert with 30+ years of experience. He pioneered the Werley and Lang Nursing Minimum Data Set, held multiple academic appointments, served in Cerner, and published 500+ articles. He is a fellow of several academies and editorial boards.
	Frances Wong, Ph.D, MA, BSN Dr. Frances Kam Yuet Wong is Chair Professor and Associate Dean at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her work spans advanced nursing practice, transitional care, aging, and service models. She has published extensively, led research projects, and served as advisor, external examiner, and keynote speaker internationally.

8:00-8:45 Welcome / Introductions

• Glen Campbell, Chairman of FNLM
• Barbara Redman, President of FNLM
• Kathleen McCormick, FNLM Education Committee
• Chris Shaffer, MS. University Librarian & Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Information Management. University of California

8:45-9:30 Session 1: Keynote – The need for Interoperability
Moderator: Suzanne Bakken, PhD, MS, BSM FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI

• Deborah K. Mayer, PhD. RN, AOCN, FAAN

9:30-11:00 Session 2: What is Interoperability, the Challenges, and a Focus on Long-term Care
Moderator: Susan Hull, MSN, RN-BC, NEA-BC, FAMIA

• Whende Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS
• Kelly Aldrich, DNP, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN
• Greg Alexander, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
• Liz Palena-Hall, MIS, MBA, RN

11:00-12:00 Session 3: Innovative models in EHR and Telehealth
Moderator: Karen Dunn Lopez, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN

• Dixie Baker, PhD
• Nancy Beale, PhD, RN, NI-BC, FAMIA

12:00-12:30 Break

12:30-1:30 Session 4: Virtual Nursing and Nurse Navigators as Innovative Models
Moderator: Carol Bickford, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAMIA, FHIMSS, FAAN

• Murielle Beene, DNP, MBA, MPH, MS, RN-BC, PMP, FAAN

1:30-3:00 Session 5: Health Information Exchanges (HIE) and NeLL as Innovative Models for Research 
Moderator: Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

• Eun Shim Nahm, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA
• Chris Chute, MD, DrPH, MPH
• Jaime Bland, DNP, RN
• Roy Simpson, DNP, RN, DPNAP, FAAN, FACMI

3:00-4:00 Session 6: Using Standard Nursing Terminology as Innovative Models Internationally
Moderator: Mary Ann Lavin,DSC, RN, ANP-BC (Retired), FNI, FAAN

• Frances Wong, PhD, MA, BSN
• Friso Raemaekers, B Health, RN, CEN, FNI

4:00-4:30 Session 7: Synergizing HL7® FHIR® with Standardized Nursing Terminology for Increased Precision
Moderator: Rebecca Freeman, PhD, RN, PHP

• Laura Heermann Langford, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FHL7
• Karen Dunn Lopez, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN

4:30-5:00 Session 8: Summary of the Day

• Laura Heermann Langford, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FHL7
• Connie Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP